Mobile user interface to access shared folders
Systems and techniques to provide access to shared content are disclosed. In various embodiments, a user input indicating a set of selected sharing users that have shared content with a viewing user is received via a filter definition user interface. A combined set of shared content comprising content that has been shared with the viewing user by one or more sharing users included in said set of selected sharing users is determined based at least in part on the indication. A display is provided that includes for at least a subset of shared content in the combined set a user-selectable visual representation of the shared content.
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This application is a continuation of co-pending U.S. patent application Ser. No. 14/501,951, entitled MOBILE USER INTERFACE TO ACCESS SHARED FOLDERS filed Sep. 30, 2014 which is incorporated herein by reference for all purposes, which claims priority to U.S. Provisional Application No. 62/017,744, entitled MOBILE USER INTERFACE TO ACCESS SHARED FOLDERS filed Jun. 26, 2014 which is incorporated herein by reference for all purposes.
BACKGROUND OF THE TECHNOLOGYFile sharing services, such as EMC® Syncplicity®, enable users to share files or other content items with another user or a group of users, and to access files that have been shared by others. A common approach is to put content to be shared in a designated folder and then use the file sharing service to share the folder with others.
In a desktop or laptop environment, a user interface may be provided that includes ample space to display information concerning the folders a user has shared and those that have been shared with the user. Likewise, a tree or other hierarchical view may be used to organize and display simultaneously a relatively large number of shared folders.
Increasingly, users access shared content via mobile devices, e.g., using a mobile application associated with the file sharing service. Mobile device displays, however, typically are much smaller than their desktop and laptop counterparts, and as a result user interfaces created for non-mobile environments are not well-suited to be used on a mobile device.
Various embodiments of the technology are disclosed in the following detailed description and the accompanying drawings.
The technology can be implemented in numerous ways, including as a process; a system; a computer program product embodied on a computer readable storage medium; and/or a processor, such as a processor configured to execute instructions stored on and/or provided by a memory coupled to the processor. In general, the order of the steps of disclosed processes may be altered within the scope of the technology. Unless stated otherwise, a component such as a processor or a memory described as being configured to perform a task may be implemented as a general component that is temporarily configured to perform the task at a given time or a specific component that is manufactured to perform the task. As used herein, the term ‘processor’ refers to one or more devices, circuits, and/or processing cores configured to process data, such as computer program instructions.
A detailed description of one or more embodiments of the technology is provided below along with accompanying figures that illustrate the technology. The technology is described in connection with such embodiments, but the technology is not limited to any embodiment. The scope of the technology is limited only by the claims and the technology encompasses numerous alternatives, modifications and equivalents. Numerous specific details are set forth in the following description in order to provide a thorough understanding of the technology. These details are provided for the purpose of example and the technology may be practiced according to the claims without some or all of these specific details.
A mobile user interface to navigate shared folders is disclosed. In various embodiments, a filter definition interface is provided to enable a user to define filtering criteria for a shared folder view. For example, in some embodiments a user may specify one or more other users resulting in folders shared by those users appearing in a shared folder view, but not folders shared by users not selected. In some embodiments, color-coding or other visual cues may be used to enable a viewing user to distinguish folders shared by one user from folders shared by a different user.
Referring further to
In various embodiments, selection by a user of a user-selectable shared folder icon displayed in a shared folder interface, such as shared folder interface 300 of
In some embodiments, a user of a file sharing service mobile app configured to provide a shared folder interface, such as shared folder interface 300 of
In some embodiments, folders displayed in a file sharing service (or other) mobile user interface, such as shared folder interface 300 of
In some embodiments, a set of small control icons may be displayed in a corner or at an edge of the mobile display, e.g., the upper right corner. The icons included may vary in some cases based on an application context, e.g., which page of the application the user is on. For example, an icon comprising a “+” sign in a small circle may be used to enable a user to access a view type selection interface. On selection of an icon associated with defining a filter to be used to determine which shared folders are to be displayed, a shared folder filter definition view is displayed.
Referring further to
In the example shown in
In some embodiments, shared folder view filter definition interface 600 may be used to build, e.g., progressively, a “shared folder” view, such as shared folder interface 300 of
In some embodiments, while viewing folders in the shared folder view, a user may adjust the filters used to determine which shared folders will be displayed by selecting a share user icon and dismissing the icon, such as by dragging the icon to a dismiss zone portion of the user interface (e.g., an area displayed and/or highlighted when a user touches and holds/drags a share user's icon). For example, touching a sharing user's icon in the shared folders view, and dragging and dropping a displayed user's icon to the “dismiss” area will result in some embodiments in shared folders associated with that user being removed from the view. Alternatively, touching a control region may cause the respective icons of users whose shared folders are not yet included in the view currently to be displayed, enabling individual users' icons to be dragged to a target to cause folders they have shared to be added to the filtered view. For example, in
In some embodiments, the address book-type interface described above can be dismissed by touching and sliding to the right, to reveal the resulting shared folder view, and accessed once again to refine or further define the filtering by touching a tab at the right margin and dragging left, like a drawer. In some embodiments, the address book interface may remain in view, and/or be ghosted out in whole or in part, and accessed again by touching the associated display area, e.g., the right margin area as shown in
In various embodiments, providing a shared folder view/display/interface as disclosed herein enables a mobile user to define a mobile-friendly display (e.g., one that includes the most useful information in the limited display space available on a typical mobile device), using an interface that is well-suited to being displayed and used on a mobile device.
Although the foregoing embodiments have been described in some detail for purposes of clarity of understanding, the technology is not limited to the details provided. There are many alternative ways of implementing the technology. The disclosed embodiments are illustrative and not restrictive.
Claims
1. A method, comprising:
- selecting, by one or more processors, a set of selected sharing users for which content shared by the set of selected sharing users are to be filtered for a viewing user, wherein the set of selected sharing users is selected based on one or more user inputs, the set of selected sharing users is selected from a set of sharing users that are sharing content with the viewing user, and the selecting the set of selected sharing users comprises: determining the set of sharing users that are determined to share content with the viewing user; causing a user-dismissible address interface for selecting the set of selected sharing users to be displayed in response to receiving a predefined user input, wherein causing the user-dismissible address interface includes: causing selectable icons with each of the selectable icons representing one of the set of sharing users to be displayed on the user-dismissible address interface; receiving the one or more user inputs, the one or more inputs selecting at least one of the selectable icons displayed on the user-dismissible address interface; and in response to the one or more inputs, selecting the set of selected sharing users from the set of sharing users;
- determining, by one or more processors, based on the selected set of sharing users, a combined set of shared content that has been shared with the viewing user by one or more sharing users included in the set of selected sharing users, wherein in response to the one or more inputs selecting the set of selected sharing users, invoking application code of a file sharing service application running on a terminal associated with the viewing user, the application code communicating a call to access information pertaining to one or more files being shared by the one or more sharing users;
- displaying at least a subset of shared content in the combined set a user-selectable visual representation of the shared content, the displaying the at least the subset of shared content comprising: receiving, via a shared folder filter definition user interface displayed on a display of a mobile terminal, a user input indicating a selected set of shared content to be displayed from among the combined set of shared content; and displaying, on a shared folder interface displayed on the display of the mobile terminal, at least part of the selected set of shared content to be displayed;
- receiving, by one or more processors, via an interface for the user-selectable visual representation, a selection of an object in the subset of shared content; and
- in response to receiving the selection of the object, performing, by one or more processors, a call to a file sharing service to access a file corresponding to the object.
2. The method of claim 1, wherein the combined set of shared content including for each of the one or more sharing users a corresponding set of one or more shared folders that sharing user has shared with the viewing user.
3. The method of claim 1, wherein the one or more user inputs with respect to the one or more sharing users indicate the set of selected sharing users.
4. The method of claim 3, wherein the one or more user inputs indicating the set of selected sharing users is received in connection with a filter definition user interface displayed on a display of a mobile terminal.
5. The method of claim 4, wherein the filter definition includes data identifying one or more sharing users as being members of the set of selected sharing users.
6. The method of claim 4, wherein the filter definition user interface includes a set of sharing user icons each associated with a corresponding sharing user and a displayed drag and drop target area.
7. The method of claim 6, wherein the user input comprises selecting, dragging and dropping at least one sharing user icons in the displayed drag and drop target area indicating the set of selected sharing users.
8. The method of claim 4, wherein the receiving, via the filter definition user interface displayed on a display of a mobile terminal, the one or more user inputs indicating the set of selected sharing users comprises:
- receiving a selection of one or more users to be deselected from the set of selected sharing users, the selection of the one or more users to be deselected comprising one or more swipe inputs to one or more corresponding icons associated with the one or more users.
9. The method of claim 1, wherein determining the combined set of shared content includes calling the file sharing service.
10. The method of claim 1, wherein the viewing user comprises a user of the mobile device.
11. The method of claim 1, wherein the user-selectable visual representation comprises a user-selectable folder icon.
12. The method of claim 1, wherein the filter definition user interface enables the viewing user to add sharing users to the set of selected sharing users.
13. The method of claim 12, wherein the display is updated, in response to an added sharing user being added to the set of selected sharing users, to include in the display a represent of shared content associated with the added sharing user.
14. The method of claim 1, wherein the filter definition user interface enables the viewing user to remove a sharing user dynamically from the set of selected sharing users.
15. The method of claim 13, further comprising removing a removed shared content from said display dynamically based at least in part on removal of a removed sharing user dynamically from the set of selected sharing users.
16. The method of claim 1, wherein the one or more user inputs for selecting the set of selected sharing users corresponds to a selection of one or more specific sharing users having content that is shared, the one or more specific sharing users to be filtered for display to the viewing user.
17. The method of claim 1, wherein the set of selected sharing users is a subset of the set of sharing users.
18. The method of claim 1, wherein the predefined user input in response to which the user-dismissible address interface is caused to be displayed is a dragging gesture in a predefined direction.
19. A system, comprising:
- a display device; and
- one or more processors coupled to the display device and configured to: select a set of selected sharing users for which content shared by the set of selected sharing users are to be filtered for a viewing user, wherein the set of selected sharing users is selected based on one or more user inputs, and the set of selected sharing users are selected from a set of sharing users that are sharing content with the viewing user, and to select the set of selected sharing users comprises: determine the set of sharing users that are determined to share content with the viewing user; cause a user-dismissible address interface for selecting the set of selected sharing users to be displayed in response to receiving a predefined user input, wherein causing the user-dismissible address interface includes: cause selectable icons with each of the selectable icons representing one of the set of sharing users to be displayed on the user-dismissible address interface; receive the one or more user inputs, the one or more inputs selecting at least one of the selectable icons displayed on the user-dismissible address interface; and in response to the one or more inputs select the set of selected sharing users from the set of sharing users; determine, based on the selected set of sharing users, a combined set of shared content that has been shared with the viewing user by one or more sharing users included in the set of selected sharing users, wherein in response to the one or more inputs selecting the set of selected sharing users, invoking application code of a file sharing service application running on a terminal associated with the viewing user, the application code communicating a call to access information pertaining to one or more files being shared by the one or more sharing users; display a display that includes for at least a subset of shared content in the combined set a user-selectable visual representation of the shared content, to display the at least the subset of shared content comprises: receive, via a shared folder filter definition user interface displayed on a display of a mobile terminal, a user input indicating a selected set of shared content to be displayed from among the combined set of shared content; and display, on a shared folder interface displayed on the display of the mobile terminal, at least part of the selected set of shared content to be displayed; receive, via an interface for the user-selectable visual representation, a selection of an object in the subset of shared content; and in response to receiving the selection of the object, perform a call to a file sharing service to access a file corresponding to the object.
20. A computer program product, the computer program product being embodied in a non-transitory computer readable storage medium and comprising computer instructions for:
- selecting a set of selected sharing users for which content shared by the set of selected sharing users are to be filtered for a viewing user, wherein the set of selected sharing users is selected based on one or more user inputs, and the set of selected sharing users are selected from a set of sharing users that are sharing content with the viewing user, and the selecting the set of selected sharing users comprises: determining the set of sharing users that are determined to share content with the viewing user; causing a user-dismissible address interface for selecting the set of selected sharing users to be displayed in response to receiving a predefined user input, wherein causing the user-dismissible address interface includes: causing selectable icons with each of the selectable icons representing one of the set of sharing users to be displayed on the user-dismissible address interface; receiving the one or more user inputs, the one or more inputs selecting at least one of the selectable icons displayed on the user-dismissible address interface; and in response to the one or more inputs, selecting the set of selected sharing users from the set of sharing users;
- determining based on the selected set of sharing users, a combined set of shared content, that has been shared with the viewing user by one or more sharing users included in the set of selected sharing users, wherein in response to the one or more inputs selecting the set of selected sharing users, invoking application code of a file sharing service application running on a terminal associated with the viewing user, the application code communicating a call to access information pertaining to one or more files being shared by the one or more sharing users;
- displaying at least a subset of shared content in the combined set a user-selectable visual representation of the shared content, the displaying the at least the subset of shared content comprising: receiving, via a shared folder filter definition user interface displayed on a display of a mobile terminal, a user input indicating a selected set of shared content to be displayed from among the combined set of shared content; and displaying, on a shared folder interface displayed on the display of the mobile terminal, at least part of the selected set of shared content to be displayed;
- receiving, via an interface for the user-selectable visual representation, a selection of an object in the subset of shared content; and
- in response to receiving the selection of the object, performing a call to a file sharing service to access a file corresponding to the object.
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Type: Grant
Filed: May 2, 2019
Date of Patent: Feb 9, 2021
Patent Publication Number: 20190258363
Assignee: EMC IP HOLDING COMPANY LLC (Hopkinton, MA)
Inventors: Varun Parmar (San Jose, CA), Hironmay Basu (Mountain View, CA), Eric Lee (Union City, CA), Anand Taralika (Sunnyvale, CA), Alok Irde (Santa Clara, CA), Patrick Thompson (Sunnyvale, CA)
Primary Examiner: Jennifer N To
Assistant Examiner: Qi Wan
Application Number: 16/401,438
International Classification: G06F 3/0482 (20130101); G06F 3/0486 (20130101); H04L 29/06 (20060101); G06F 3/0481 (20130101); H04L 29/08 (20060101); G06F 3/048 (20130101);